Services
Construction expert Andrew Karic provides consulting services to assist clients with construction project planning, scheduling, budgeting, contract disputes and construction lawsuits. As an expert witness he helps clients avoid and resolve legal issues by assisting them with case preparation and defense, construction claims analysis, delay analysis, building inspection, forensic investigation, preparation and responses to written discovery, expert testimony and trial assistance. Andrew Karic also provides surety services including the analysis, investigation and mediation of construction contract surety bond claims.
Construction Consulting Services:
- Assist in preparation and responses to written discovery
- Assistance with deposition preparation
- Building inspection and assessment of building failure
- Change order claims analysis
- Claims analysis
- Construction claim disputes
- Construction defect investigation and analysis
- Coordination and retention of additional consulting or expert witness work
- Contract disputes analysis
- Cost estimating and general conditions analysis
- Damage and repair analysis
- Cost to complete analysis for renovation and new construction
- All types of workmanship issues and standards
- Analyze cost reports, job profitability and WIP
- Expert reports and rebuttal reports
- Provide “boots on the ground” reviews of contract performance
- Delay claims and schedule analysis
- Managing professional architects and engineers on all types of construction projects
- Proficient in the Design Build Delivery approach
- Preparation and analysis of delay and extended general condition claims
- Project close out and punch list surveillance
- Due diligence investigation real estate transactions
- Forensic investigation and services
- General construction costs and analysis
- Initial case analysis to provide preliminary recommendations
- Inspection and assessment of building envelopes and building systems
- Meeting minute tracking and analysis
- Property inspection and condition assessment and reporting
- Registrar of Contractor claims
- Evaluate contractor and subcontractor performance
- Workmanship claims investigation and analysis
- Provide assistance in takeover projects for bond companies
- Write up scopes of work and subcontractor negotiations
- Owners Representative on multi-million-dollar projects working with national G.C.
Construction Expert Witness Services:
- Expert testimony in a bench trial dispute regarding change orders
- Forensic investigation and analysis for numerous construction defect cases
- Testified in more than eighteen mediations
- Provided deposition testimony many times
- Testified in numerous bench trials for breach of contract and construction claims
- Testified in jury trial involving contract construction dispute, change orders, schedule delays, general condition claims and breach of contract claims
- Written more than eighty Expert and Rebuttal Reports
- Provide lawyers with deposition questions and support
- Provided pre-construction and during construction consulting and management services for one 20- million-dollar seven story 96 apartment units multi-family 96 development in downtown Tucson and value engineered project budget by 3 million such that the project could be constructed
- Provided pre-construction and during construction consulting and management services for one 60-million dollar historic 372 apartment units multi-family mixed use development known as the Benedictine Monastery Apartments
- Coaching Services at an Executive level for growing Construction firms
- Safety and OSHA construction accidents and death cases
- Provided detail schedule claims analysis
- ROC claims and disputes in both residential and commercial projects
- Bond claims and take over projects
- Workmanship, Standard of Care in both Residential and Commercial
Construction Expert Surety Services:
- Bond claims analysis
- Quality of work analysis
- Cost report analysis
- Cost to complete analysis
- Cash flow projection analysis
- Monthly profit report analysis
- Profit fade analysis
- Concealed and unforeseen condition analysis
- Bid spread analysis
- Subcontract scope analysis
- Project scheduling
- Project monitoring
- Mediation and arbitration support
